keeping up with changing ecologies through artistic research


photo by Kaylie Dempsey
sabrina.buehn@gmail.com

based in Vienna (AT) / Berlin (DE)

open for collaboration

Bio/CV


Academic Education

  • diploma study program of Art&Science, University of Applied Arts | Vienna | 2021 - ongoing
  • BSc in landscape architecture and landscape planning, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences | Vienna | 2012 - 2021
  • bachelor thesis at the Institute of Soil Bioengineering and Landscape Construction (IBLB) | „Prüfung der Entflammbarkeit von Kletterpflanzen am Kriterium des Verhaltens lebender Pflanzenteile bei kritischen Temperaturen – ein Beitrag zum Thema Brandschutz bei Fassadenbegrünung“ (2017)
  • higher education entrance qualification with the honours courses biology and english | humanistisch neusprachliches Gymnasium Gars (GER) | 2002 - 2011

Ecology

  • ecological project manager, PR | nonprofit organisation: RGV - Regionale Gehölzvermehrung | Austria | 2023
  • vegetational ecologist | Naturschutzbund Steiermark | Styria | 2020 - 2022
  • scientific preliminary work | Werner Lampert Beratungsges.m.b.H. | Vienna | 2020
  • vegetational ecologist | E.C.O. Institut für Ökologie | Carinthia | 2019
  • ecologist | Naturrauminventur Nationalpark Donauauen | Österreichische Bundesforste | Vienna/Lower Austria | 2018 - 2019
  • assistant manager | Naturpark Weißbach | Salzburg | 2018
  • Umwelt- und Kulturpraktikum (environmental and cultural internship) at Global2000 | Vienna | 2017- 2018
  • permaculture internship at NaturSinne | Kampichl 60, 2871 Zöbern, Austria | 2017
  • European Voluntary Service | Gražutes regioninis parkas | Lithuania | 2011


Lectures

  • “Have you seen an Alien?” guestlecture at Akademie der Bildenden Künste | Vienna (AT)
  • “Planting Territories” at the conference “Territory beyond state and property” | Bravos (ESP) | upcomming
  • “Welcome in the Plastisphere” at THINK conference | Lehrforst Boku (AT) | upcomming
  • “Umweltbeobachtungen im Hier und Jetzt und Morgen” - Art Science Hub workshop at Mittelschule Josef-Enslein-Platz | Vienna (AT) | 2023
  • “How Aliens will save us from our Shit – A Walk along Shitty Shores of the Future” | KC Grad, Belgrad (SRB)| 2023
  • talk on “Hibernating Further” (by Jaskaran Anand) | Europäische Theaternacht | Brunnenpassage Wien
  • lecturer during MoA's Interdisciplinary Autumn School: “Frictioned Functionality. Un/Designing Un/Sustainable Matter” | HU Berlin, Berlin (DE)
  • assistant at the conference “Exhaust(ed) Entanglements - Overcoming the Auto-Self of the Anthropocene” at FU Berlin, Berlin (DE)
  • “Invasive Neobiota im Anthropozän” at “The unknOwn unknOwns Festival – Mit Offener Wissenschaft und Innovation auf zu neuen Welten!“ by innOsci
  • lecturer for the seminar “alien encounters and dark ecology” for the IPA (Institut für poetische Alltagsverbesserung) Linz



Exhibitions & Performances

  • “How Metal is Your Ecocide?” at Pragovka Gallery | Prague (CZ) | 25.7.-29.8.24
  • “Seeds of Resistance” at groupshow “Esistenza Integrale” at Bildraum, Ankerbrotfabrik, Wien | 23.5.-16.6.
  • “T.A.R. - Temporary Autonomous Region” as part of the Futurama°Lab hosted by Klima Biennale Wien | 6.4.- 14.7.24
  • “This Is Not a Glacier - Thickening Description for Thinning Ice” groupshow at AIL, Vienna | 26.1.-2.2.24
  • “Ruptured Shores, Plastic Beds” at Kunstverein Otto-Wagner-PSK | Vienna (AT) | Nov-Dec 2023
  • “Toxicoenosis” at Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin, Humanobiotop by POEM | Berlin (DE) | 14.10.2023
  • “Toxicoenosis” at Angewandte Festival, Kassahalle, AIL | Vienna (AT) | 27.-30.6.23
  • “Cold Burn” as part of “Licking Structures” (Groupshow) at Künstlerhaus | Vienna (AT) | 23.6.-2.7.23
  • “Die letzte Waschung” at Salon Skug | Vienna (AT) | 2023
  • “Toxic Temple” at Donaufestival “Beyond Human”| Krems (AT) | 2023
  • Groupshow „DOWNSTREAM #01“ | KC Grad, Belgrad (SRB) | 2023
  • researcher and artist in residency at MS Fusion with “When Invasive Species Meet II” | 14.8.-10.10. | Danube 
  • “When Invasive Species Meet I” as part of “Angewandte Festival” | 28.6.-1.7. | Vienna (AT)
  • “When Invasive Species Meet I” as part of “From Here Through There” at Künstlerhaus | 3.6.-6.6. | Vienna (AT)
  • “Toxic Temple” at Angewandte Innovation Lab | 20.5.-23.5. | Vienna (AT)
  • “Toxic Temple” Performance and book presentation at Hopscotch Reading Room | 8.5. | Berlin (DE)
  • “Toxic Temple” at RaumD, Museumsquartier | 24.9.-26.9. | Vienna (AT)
  • “carless.earth - Auto-aggression”, Performance at PU#29 - Hin Fort Bewegung | 21.8. | Vienna (AT)
  • “carless.earth - Die Letzte Waschung”, Peformance at PU#27 - Platz für Wien | 18.9. | Vienna (AT)
  • “Postcoronal Lab” as part of “Parque del iSOLation” | 3.8.-9.8. | St. Pölten (AT)

Publications



Other

  • artist assistant for bioartist Theresa Schubert | Berlin | 2022
  • proofreading and editing work | De Gruyter, freelancer | 2022
  • editorial board | REISEN Magazin | Vienna | 2020
  • STUTHE: board member of the organization of students’ theatre and performing arts | https://stuthe.com/ | 2013-2017; workshop host for performing and improvisational theatre | 2013 - ongoing